From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp)
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 08:38:58 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1608030836530.10098@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1045a647a2347adfa400213707d00e8f.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com>
On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, scj at yaccman.com wrote:
> A Canadian friend of mine, after working in the US for five or so years,
> was returning to Canada about 1969 with five years of research in 20 or 30
> boxes of punched cards in the back of his car. He was stopped at the
> border and told that he would have to pay duty on the card boxes -- I
> think the total came to over $200. He argued with them for some time, and
> finally one of the agents opened one of the boxes and said "Oh! These are
> USED punch cards! There is no duty."
Not Henry Spencer, perchance?
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-02 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-31 4:25 Rudi Blom
2016-08-01 1:08 ` John Cowan
2016-08-01 7:14 ` Rudi Blom
2016-08-01 17:11 ` scj
2016-08-01 18:32 ` Clem Cole
2016-08-02 22:38 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
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2016-08-03 11:53 Norman Wilson
2016-07-27 20:28 [TUHS] Unix v6 problem with /tmp Mark Longridge
2016-07-27 20:31 ` William Pechter
2016-07-27 20:57 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-27 21:10 ` William Pechter
2016-07-28 0:49 ` Clem cole
2016-07-28 1:03 ` William Pechter
2016-07-28 11:23 ` [TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp) Michael Kjörling
2016-07-28 12:18 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-28 13:57 ` John Cowan
2016-07-30 7:56 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-30 11:41 ` William Cheswick
2016-07-30 23:28 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-30 23:50 ` scj
2016-08-01 11:36 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-30 14:15 ` John Cowan
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